Xianfeng glared at Su Shun angrily for a while, and saw that he actually looked at him directly, without compromise, let out a "hum", and returned to the dragon chair to sit down, Xianfeng secretly wondered why he was not angry about what he was doing, but he felt a feeling of excitement in his heart, but for the sake of the emperor's face, he couldn't show it, so he could only continue to blush.

Su Shun took off his top flower feather, put it on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "The minister asks the emperor to think twice, the Qing Dynasty can't die." ”

Xianfeng was frightened and shocked, and said secretly: How similar he is to Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are anti-thieves inside, and strong enemies peep outside. It's just that Chongzhen was stubborn and died for his own use. What about me? It must not be like him. Thinking of this, he soothed Su Shun with kind words: "You are very good, you can speak out, much better than those officials who only know how to nod and pat their ass." ”

Su Shun said: "The minister is ashamed. ”

Xianfeng walked down again, bent down to pick up Su Shun's pipe hat, put it on Su Shun's head personally, helped him stand up, patted him on the shoulder with emotion and said: "Do a good job, your qualifications are too shallow, I have already been promoted to your official when I ascended the throne, and it is not appropriate to be promoted." After a while, I will let you go to the various departments to train. As for the group training, I still think that I should slowly figure it out, let Zeng Guofan return to his hometown first, what do you think? ”

Su Shun said: "The emperor is wise, but he is just a regimental training and then a war exploit, and he can no longer be treated like before, and the chief official will be transferred to another country as an eight- or nine-grade petty official, or let him receive the real title and continue to suppress thieves." ”

Xianfeng said with a smile: "Okay, I'm right, how much merit I make, how much official I give." ”

Su Shunxi said: "In this way, don't worry about the injustice of the thief." ”

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"The minister retired," Su Shun bowed and exited the upper study.

Wuchang City

Governor Gong Yu. The political envoy Chang Dachun and the admiral Shuangfu gathered together to discuss the military situation.

Since Shuangfu saw the Han army on the city wall and couldn't see the end of the army on the river, it was all about despair, and he said gloomily: "There are only three thousand defenders in the city, and there is no one more." ”

Gong Yu also didn't understand military affairs, and when he saw that there were few soldiers in the city, he said: "Call all the reinforcements outside the city to defend in the city, so that there are 5,000, can you hold for a few more days." After speaking, he looked at Shuangfu with expectant eyes.

Shuangfu intuitively felt that this was inappropriate, and he couldn't think of any other way, so he could only say vaguely: "I hope Xiang Rong can support Wuchang soon." ”

Gong Yu nodded in disappointment and said, "Xiang Rong is still in Yuezhou, he killed the prefect of Yuezhou by stubbornly waiting for help, is he still coming to harm us?" ”

Chang Dachun said: "Why do you say so much? At that time, it is to be loyal to the country, and after death, it will naturally leave a name in history and be remembered for generations. ”

Gong Yu said: "Yes, if you escape, you will be questioned and die." ”

Shuangfu rolled his eyes at them, and thought to himself: If you have a chance, you must run.

Jiao Liang brought two young women and a man in his thirties to meet Li Yunzhong, Jiao Liang pointed to the older woman and said to Li Yunzhong: "Your Highness, this is the clumsy Jing Xu Yuegui, who is good at using a spear and leaping like a flying horse." ”

Xu Yuegui bowed to Li Yunzhong and said, "Xu Yuegui see His Royal Highness." ”

Li Yunzhong hurriedly smiled and said: "No courtesy, this must be Sister Ling, it is really a double of color and art." ”

Xu Yuexiang's face turned red, secretly thinking about how this person could be so rude, hesitated, but still stepped forward and said, "Xu Yuexiang see His Highness." ”

Jiao Liang saw that Li Yunzhong praised Xu Yuexiang, and he already had the intention of marrying her to Li Yunzhong, and then pointed to the man and introduced to Li Yunzhong: "This is Tang Zhengcai, the leader of the Flood Hall of the Hubei Heaven and Earth Society, calling on more than 30,000 boatmen to serve the King of Han, and the boatmen are now behind the army. ”

Li Yunzhong was overjoyed, stepped forward to support Tang Zhengcai, who was about to salute, and said: "I have always been worried that our army has no sailor generals, and now I have just come to vote, and it is really a victory...... God help me. Li Yunzhong was embarrassed to say that he had defeated 100,000 male soldiers.

Originally, Li Yunzhong belonged to Luo Outline to command the sailors, but he didn't know that Luo Outline was unwilling to live or die, saying that he would rather be the commander of the land regiment than the commander of the water army.

Tang Zhengcai said: "I have been begging for a living on the water since I was a child, and I also know a little about water warfare. ”

"Okay, you will select 20,000 sailors to form a naval army, and you will be the general, the same as the division commander." Li Yunzhong thought about it, and it was not good to directly seal the army commander, so he was demoted by one level.

Hu Yihuang got on the boat and said to Li Yunzhong: "Your Highness, all the Qing troops outside the city suddenly withdrew to the city. ”

Li Yunzhong said with a smile: "It's really good, I'm still worried about wasting time outside the city, waiting for Xiang Rong to come to the rescue of Wuchang, now I can rest assured that Wuchang is surrounded, let's go ashore." ”

Wuchang is the provincial capital of Hubei, the west pillows the Yangtze River, the east is based on the Hongshan, the city is high and the wall is thick, the situation is dangerous, Li Yunzhong led 30,000 troops to land, sure enough, without encountering any resistance, occupied the key points of Hongshan, Xiaogui Mountain, and Bauhinia Mountain in the east of the city, and encircled the north and south wings, Li Yunzhong did not order the siege of the city, or decided to use the old method, digging tunnels to bury explosives.

Go around along Wuchang City, find that the Wenchang Gate in the southwest is high and open, most suitable for digging tunnels, the natural Tongjin port here, not suitable for feints to cover up the sound of digging tunnels, can only attack the Wangshan Gate 1000 meters away, in order to attract all the attention of the defenders in the city, it is not a feint, it is a strong attack. Li Yunzhong instructed the demolition team to dig tunnels when the siege was fierce.

On the morning of February 15, Li Yunzhong ordered the siege of the city, the army prepared cannons, rockets, ladders and other weapons, and the Qing army used artillery fire, water pumps, rolling wood, stones, etc. to resist, so the storm lasted for a day, and in the evening the tunnel was finally dug under the city wall, Li Yunzhong ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the Qing army on the city wall let out a burst of cheers.

In the early morning of the 16th, the demolition regiment ignited gunpowder and blew up a section of the city wall of Wenchang Gate, Li Yunzhong ordered them to enter the city as the first echelon, the second army and the third army as the second echelon, Li Yunzhong led the first army as the last army to enter the city, and the rest stayed outside the city or on the ship to block the reinforcements of the Qing army.

Most of the defenders in the city had not yet woken up, and when they saw the enemy entering the city, they all scattered and fled, and there were very few who resisted to the end, although they saw some young men of fifteen or sixteen years old entering the city, but they were more murderous than adults, and they were not afraid of death, and they would rather die together than come forward, and the scouts went forward as if they had their eyes closed, from the southwest to the northeast, and only turned back when they saw the city wall. Let the soldiers of the second and third armies who followed behind be dumbfounded, I used to see that His Royal Highness liked teenagers, and they all thought that His Royal Highness the King of Han itself had little to do with it, but I didn't expect the Boy Scouts to go into battle for the first time, and they were so majestic, only to know that His Royal Highness the King of Han was really wise and powerful.

Hubei Governor Gong Yu committed suicide by poisoning, and the Admiral Shuangfu had "foresight" to stay in the east at night, and when they saw the Han army entering the city, they directly opened the city gate and fled, and fled to Henan to be taken in by Qishan. Chang Dachun attempted suicide and was rescued.

On the day of the capture of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang were also captured by the First Army led by Hu Yihuang.

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